Mining companies say they do not fear a plan by China’s CATL to make an electric vehicle (EV) battery without lithium or other key metals because the new design will have a limited range and more-powerful rival battery technologies will gobble up minerals supply in coming years.
News ID: 10267 Publish Date : 2021/11/22
Nickel has quietly been going neck-in-neck with copper since the start of the base metals rally in mid-2020, and is now approaching a key level that analysts believe could spur investment in new supply.
News ID: 10172 Publish Date : 2021/02/12
German auto producer BMW has awarded a 2.9bn euro ($3.21bn) contract to supply battery cells for its next wave of electric vehicles (EVs), locking in components needed for its future expansion.
News ID: 7513 Publish Date : 2019/11/22
South Korean electric vehicle (EV) battery producer SK Innovation is nearing completion of two overseas plants that will more than quadruple its production capacity. But the company acknowledges that it will take as long as a year to bring them up to full output.
News ID: 7071 Publish Date : 2019/11/01
South Korea's Samsung SDI plans to invest 390bn forint ($1.29bn) in an expansion of its electric vehicle (EV) battery plant in Hungary, but a European Commission investigation of government incentives pledged to the company could complicate the project.
News ID: 6670 Publish Date : 2019/10/16
Battery producers and electric automakers, including Tesla Inc., are concerned over longer-term supplies of nickel, a key material in their supply chain that’s forecast to fall into deficit, according to an Australian miner that’s held recent talks with the sector.
News ID: 5744 Publish Date : 2019/08/05
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